Forget Nigella, Rick and Jamie. Start the year with some great new recipes AND do some good for those living in poverty.
More than £17,000 has been raised to date by the sale of Recipes for Disaster, a new cookbook inspired by food from around the world. Instead of a disaster, the book has proved to be an amazing success.

Husband and wife Gordon and Brenda Wilkinson collected the recipes and have pledged to donate the proceeds to the Christian relief and development agency Tearfund, a charity they actively support.
The idea took root on a study tour of Honduras with Tearfund. The couple found themselves living on rice and beans for a fortnight. ‘Or beans and rice! or rice, beans and plantain! and that led us to wonder what kind of staple foods people eat in other poor countries,’ said Gordon. ‘We began a two-year search for recipes from across the globe. Our title – Recipes for Disaster! Relief and Development certainly helped to attract media interest and we’ve been invited to contribute to lots of magazines and do radio interviews.’
The book has more than 40 recipes from 25 of the 70 countries where Tearfund works. ‘But it’s a recipe book with a difference in that it gives information on each country and then shows how Tearfund is bringing hope to a particular community, such as caring for AIDS orphans in Cambodia, providing lunches for school children in Haiti, or ensuring that craft workers in Peru and Thailand have an outlet for their products and get a fair wage,’ says Brenda.

For more information about the recipes go to www.recipesfordisaster.org